Operation Market Garden - 9th Aufklärungs-Abteilung
A Bridge Too Far - Arnhem Design Choices As many of you will be familiar with the film 'A Bridge Too Far' which depicted the events of Operation Market Garden. For those of you unfamiliar, this was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. The whole force Essentially the Allies tried to capture and hold three key bridgeheads with paratroopers landings and link these up with armoured forces. The furthest of these paratrooper landings, at Arnhem, managed to capture one side of the bridge. As mentioned, some of this, is depicted in the film. I remember growing up in a military family, watching this film many times when I was a kid. The Act of Heroism One part of the film that stuck in my mind was that of the German assault on British positions at the bridge. Of course as a kid it was always interesting to see the vehicles blown up and the action of the movie. However, I was really intrigued b...